Remembrance sunday

[stihlmadasever]

18 minutes ago, White Noise said:

Its crazy how many other ex service guys end up in the Arb game .

 

Done the alcohol bit  a good time ago . 

 

 

Alcohol abuse was rife in the forces in my day,everyone drank its indemic in the system.

The real problem is when guys hit sivvy street..theres no support structure put in place for those who need it,it would seem ptsd is rife in those returning from operations.

Im 100% behind remembering those who payed the ultimate price in giving there lives in the wars and by no means mean to distract from that but im angry our ex forces guys and gals are being ignored by our government and the MOD

[David Cropper]

48 minutes ago, stihlmadasever said:

I found out yesterday one of the blokes i served with took his own life awhile back.

We try too meet up every now and again and thought remembrance day(well the day before) would be good this year.

Paul was the nicest bloke,everyone liked him even the RSM who was the worst kind of human being.

Still a bit numb 

He split from his wife,probably ptsd and went unto a downward spiral,alcohol dependant and homeless at the end.

What really pisses me off is the whole remember those who are dead wear a poppy..

What about those who are alive and struggling?

Why isnt more being done to help them?

What about those who are still serving in active operations overseas,why are those troops depending on families sending them boots,scarfs,gloves and 101 other items to survive in theatre when our shitty government does bugger all to help em

I sorry for the rant but this time of year and yesterdays debacle has really got me angry.

Sorry to hear about your mate, how many more stories are we going to hear like this?  Too many I think. As to crap kit, it always has been so and always will be. When they changed from the good old DMS boots to the fancy looking high legged ones, blokes were getting Trench Foot, this is in the  eighties not the first World War for goodness sake. 

[Bolt]

54 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

I think its great to remember our war hero's, especially our first world war war hero's..

 

 

I couldn't agree more.

 

The Britain of WW1 is an eon away from the Britain of back then.  The world now is so shrunk.

Back then, lads who had never even left their village were taken and dumped is a nightmare that even now you could barely comprehend.

 

I can't see how you could cope with that, even if you do survive.

 

And by Christ did some of those old boys survive.  Tough tough nuts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember watching Blackadder goes forth back when it first came out on the telly.  Although classic British telly, I watched every episode with the growing unease that the series was soon going to have to come to an end, and there was no way that final episode could be anything but disrespectful crap.  Somethings just aren't for comedy, and I could not see a way that it could get concluded without leaving a very bad taste in the mouth.

 

What they in fact did with those closing moments was genius, and in my opinion, one of the finest bits of British telly ever broadcast.

 

 

 

 

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, arbogrunt said:

how many of us will be attending their local Remembrance Parades tomorrow?.

I will as always, no one else left who knew that generation of my family

[Bolt]

1 hour ago, stihlmadasever said:

 

I sorry for the rant but this time of year and yesterdays debacle has really got me angry.

 

 

I don't think that's a rant.  

 

It's totally to the point and needed to be said.

 

I don't know about all those who wear a poppy as a fashion item once a year, but I know that most who will be standing silently in the cold / wet tomorrow will be thinking of a whole lot more than the curiously titled "glorious dead" .

 

 

I feel for those affected by Paul's death, this will always be a tough time.

Edited November 11, 2017 by Bolt

[tony_t3d]

As a serving Reservist I will be donning the FAD (No 2 dress for the older folk) and parading myself in Liverpool town centre. Then Back to Barracks for a few beers.

Enjoy your parades everyone.

[jfc]

I will be going with the Cubs to the local parade. My daughter is going to be flag bearer for the Scouts this year. Our marching must look terrible to the veterans present!

[Mesterh]

We will be going.

Its little compensation to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice to give up their lives for a better cause.

 

 

 

 

[matelot]

Maybe any ex military reading this that are suffering ptsd should consider contacting a charity called combat stress. There's no shame asking for help if you need it.

[daveatdave]

I will not be attending a parade but I have had a 2 minutes silence today (Saturday) and a 1 minutes silence Sunday. but at the end of the day it was the government of the day that put the lads in the firing line and they should look after them, I have lost relatives in both world wars